Anais Nin Quotes

No man is hurt but by himself.

We have met the enemy and he is us.

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.

Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it's you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.

To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts.

No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.

I think one of the things that's happening is that people are realizing that they can't pass the buck to the government because the government, at least as far it comes to environmental protection, doesn't exist. That they're going to have to bite the bullet a little bit themselves. Look, there are no silver linings to Trumpism. This is an unmitigated disaster. But let's hope that at least it helps people find their courage in this resistance.

The only person I have hurt is myself.

How many people have damaged their own lives by mistaking enablement for grace?

In the commission of evil, fear no man so much as thyself; another is but one witness against thee, thou art a thousand; another thou mayest avoid, thyself thou canst not. Wickedness is its own punishment.

Man is his own worst enemy.

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.

I don't think anybody can be held accountable or responsible for anyone's behaviors expect the individual. This goes beyond that particular situation.

We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government. 'Am I my brother's keeper?' Most certainly I am! I cannot escape my responsibility by saying the State will do all that is necessary. It is a tragedy that nowadays so many think and feel otherwise.

We do not what we ought; What we ought not, we do; And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through; But our own acts, for good or ill, are mightier powers.

He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.

You don't drink and smoke that much, and womanize that much, unless you really want to be punished, I think.

Don’t wreck my reputation / Let me wreck my own

I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

Just think: you cannot find a single misery for which you are not responsible. It may be jealousy, it may be anger, it may be greed - but something in you must be the reason that is creating the misery.

There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat

So many means of self-destruction, so little time.

It's always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility.

If you recognize that all of your inner hurts are caused by your own wrong actions or your own wrong reactions or your own wrong inaction, then you will stop hurting yourself.

We've somehow allowed ourselves to think it's okay to neglect and abandon our responsibility to ourselves and to our community. Everything cannot be blamed on the system.